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Welcome back to the Slow Listening Podcast, your space to learn English calmly, confidently, and with real understanding.

In today’s episode, Martin and Julia break down one of the most influential personal-development books of the last decade: The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson — a blunt, honest, and refreshing guide to living a more meaningful life.

This is a full conversational summary, carefully adapted from the book 

💡 You’ll learn:

• Why trying to be happy makes you miserable
• How the “feedback loop from hell” destroys confidence
• Why accepting your negative emotions is the first step to freedom
• How to choose better problems and better values
• Why you’re not “special” — and why that’s good
• The difference between fault and responsibility
• Why action creates motivation (not the other way around)
• How thinking about death can make life clearer and lighter

This episode gives you practical tools, emotional insights, and powerful questions to help you reduce stress, simplify your values, and focus on what truly matters.

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⏱️ Chapters

0:00 — Intro & Why This Book Matters

1:20 — The Feedback Loop from Hell

3:40 — The Backwards Law & Accepting Negative Emotions

5:25 — What “Not Giving a F*ck” Actually Means

7:50 — Choosing Better Problems & Values

10:15 — Happiness Is Solving Problems

12:30 — You Are Not Special (And Why That’s Good)

14:50 — Shitty Values vs Good Values

17:10 — Radical Responsibility

19:00 — Motivation & The Do-Something Principle

21:00 — Death, Meaning & Legacy

23:00 — Final Takeaways & Call to Action

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